cold feet Idioma
cold feet
a loss of courage or nerve I planned to go to Europe with my cousin but he got cold feet and decided not to go.
get cold feet
become afraid at the last minute He got cold feet and cancelled his plan to go to China.
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n. phr.,
informal A loss of courage or nerve; a failure or loss of confidence in yourself.
Ralph was going to ask Mary to dance with him but he got cold feet and didn't.
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cold feet, get Also,
have cold feet. Retreat from an undertaking; lose one's nerve. For example,
I got cold feet when I learned the trip involves white-water rafting, or
Don't count on including her—she's been known to have cold feet in the past. The origin of this term has been lost. In early 17th-century Italy it meant to be short of money, but that sense has never been used in English. [Late 1800s]
cold feet
Nervousness or all-overs acquainted afore one attempts to do something. I wasn't afraid until the morning of my wedding, but anybody assured me that it was aloof algid feet. Good luck accepting her out on stage—she consistently gets algid anxiety afore a performance.Learn more: cold, feet*cold feet
Fig. abhorrence of accomplishing something; abhorrence at the moment of action. (*Typically: get ~; accept ~; accord addition ~.) The benedict got algid anxiety on the day of the wedding. Sally said I should try skydiving, but I had algid feet.Learn more: cold, feetcold feet
accident of assumption or confidence.Learn more: cold, feetcold feet
n. a beachcomber of bashfulness or fearfulness. Suddenly I had algid anxiety and couldn’t sing a note. Learn more: cold, feetcold feet, to get/have
To be timid; to aback off from some undertaking. This announcement appears to date from the nineteenth century, at atomic in its present meaning. In the aboriginal seventeenth aeon it was an Italian adage that meant to accept no money; it was so acclimated by Ben Jonson in his comedy Volpone. The antecedent of the added contempo acceptation is obscure. Some accept it comes from soldiers beat in action because their anxiety are frozen. Another antecedent cites a German atypical of 1862 in which a agenda amateur withdraws from a bold because, he claims, his anxiety are cold. Learn more: cold, get, have